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Dirk Eddelbuettel<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@jimgar" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>jimgar</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://datasci.social/@dodecadron" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>dodecadron</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@kevinushey" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>kevinushey</span></a></span> Good to know you are covered. The (new-ish) installer helper tools by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@coatless" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>coatless</span></a></span> may be of interest to you too as they focus on iOS. Next up may be an r-universe setup to have binaries for `terminalgraphics` ? <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/rstats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rstats</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/rcpp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rcpp</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://github.com/coatless-mac/macrtools" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/coatless-mac/macrto</span><span class="invisible">ols</span></a></p>
Jim Gardner<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://datasci.social/@dodecadron" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>dodecadron</span></a></span> Rcpp was crapping out when I first tried to install this, because of a directory left behind by an older install of Xcode on Mac (so not a problem with the package or Rcpp). It was saying that cmath couldn't be found. The following fix by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@kevinushey" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>kevinushey</span></a></span> worked for me <a href="https://github.com/RcppCore/Rcpp/issues/1333#issuecomment-2375761873" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/RcppCore/Rcpp/issue</span><span class="invisible">s/1333#issuecomment-2375761873</span></a> so thanks for that, Kevin!!</p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/rStats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rStats</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/macOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>macOS</span></a></p>
3xfactorial<p>Next at <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WorkshopsForUkraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WorkshopsForUkraine</span></a>: Efficient <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/R" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>R</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Rstats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Rstats</span></a> - How to write faster code, by Selina Baldauf (Freie Universität in Berlin), Thursday, August 28th, 6 pm CEST. Register or sponsor a place for a student by donating to support <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ukraine</span></a>. You can also donate to get recordings and all of the materials of the previous workshops. Details: <a href="https://sites.google.com/view/dariia-mykhailyshyna/main/r-workshops-for-ukraine#h.oa07qjdh2h9w" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">sites.google.com/view/dariia-m</span><span class="invisible">ykhailyshyna/main/r-workshops-for-ukraine#h.oa07qjdh2h9w</span></a></p>
DSLC Videos<p>From the <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@DSLC" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>DSLC</span></a></span> :rstats:​chives:</p><p>:rstats: Tidy Modeling with R: Fitting models with parsnip <a href="https://youtu.be/97VLayRdu-A" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/97VLayRdu-A</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/RStats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RStats</span></a></p><p>:rstats: :python: Devops for Data Science: Introduction <a href="https://youtu.be/Ya0EHNfg4WA" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/Ya0EHNfg4WA</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/RStats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RStats</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/PyData" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PyData</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/DevOps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DevOps</span></a></p><p>:rstats: ISLR: Support Vector Machines Part 1 <a href="https://youtu.be/I7F49a6Xhw4" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/I7F49a6Xhw4</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/RStats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RStats</span></a></p><p>:rstats: tidyverse docs: two table verbs <a href="https://youtu.be/Zv4pEXCdpwE" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/Zv4pEXCdpwE</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/RStats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RStats</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/tidyverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tidyverse</span></a></p><p>Visit <a href="https://dslc.video" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">dslc.video</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> for hours of new <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/DataScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataScience</span></a> videos every week!</p>
Data Science<p>Add highlighting to your quarto presentation using the RoughNotation library: <a href="https://emilhvitfeldt.github.io/quarto-roughnotation/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">emilhvitfeldt.github.io/quarto</span><span class="invisible">-roughnotation/</span></a> <a href="https://genomic.social/tags/rstats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rstats</span></a> <a href="https://genomic.social/tags/quarto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quarto</span></a> <a href="https://genomic.social/tags/slides" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>slides</span></a></p>
coolbutuseless<p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/RStats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RStats</span></a> hive mind:</p><p>Is it possible to *not* export S3 methods which are used totally internally, yet still make use of the S3 dispatch internally for the custom classes in the package?</p>
Karandeep Singh<p>Question: what’s the best iOS app to run <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23rstats" target="_blank">#rstats</a> locally? Prefer not to use Safari with webR - is there an app that wraps webR for iOS?</p>
Grant McDermott<p><a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23rstats" target="_blank">#rstats</a> Seen over at Mastodon: the `terminalgraphics` 📦 let's you render R plots _directly_ in a terminal window (e.g., R process launched from the command line, neovim or emacs). <a href="https://codeberg.org/djvanderlaan/terminalgraphics" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">codeberg.org/djvanderlaan...</a> Get it: `remotes::install_git(url = "https://codeberg.org/djvanderlaan/terminalgraphics")`</p>
Josiah<p>extendr has a domain! Say hello to <a href="https://extendr.rs" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">extendr.rs</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> 👋 </p><p>We're working on lowering the bar to using Rust :ferris: with :rstats: </p><p>We've added some new resources: </p><p>- 💭 Intro to Rust for R Developers <a href="https://extendr.rs/intro-rust/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">extendr.rs/intro-rust/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br>- 📣 Publishing to CRAN: <a href="https://extendr.rs/user-guide/cran-publishing.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">extendr.rs/user-guide/cran-pub</span><span class="invisible">lishing.html</span></a><br>- 🕸️ Building for WebR: <a href="https://extendr.rs/user-guide/webr.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">extendr.rs/user-guide/webr.html</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/rstats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rstats</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/rust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rust</span></a></p>
SMT<p>A proposal for an iterator protocol for the <a href="https://genomic.social/tags/Rstats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Rstats</span></a> `for` special primitive by Tomasz Kalinowski <br>R-devel thread : <a href="https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2025-August/084137.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel</span><span class="invisible">/2025-August/084137.html</span></a> <br>Pull request : <a href="https://github.com/r-devel/r-svn/pull/130/files?diff=unified&amp;w=1" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/r-devel/r-svn/pull/</span><span class="invisible">130/files?diff=unified&amp;w=1</span></a></p><p>Very interesting discussion thread, hope it gets merged</p>
Data Science<p>Are you interested in how dependency-heavy your (or another) package is and why? <a href="https://github.com/jokergoo/pkgndep" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">github.com/jokergoo/pkgndep</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://genomic.social/tags/rstats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rstats</span></a></p>
Sharon Machlis<p>Weekend project: New actionsMonitoR <a href="https://masto.machlis.com/tags/RStats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RStats</span></a> 📦 gets all the GitHub workflows in your GitHub account (authorized by PAT) and can display them in a searchable table<br><a href="https://github.com/smach/actionsMonitoR" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">github.com/smach/actionsMonitoR</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Written almost 💯by Google Gemini 2.5 Pro - I wanted to test out Gemini on writing R code. It did quite well except for writing tests, when it went a bit off the rails.<br><a href="https://masto.machlis.com/tags/GenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenAI</span></a><br>[There's also a repo name column not in image]</p>
Josiah<p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/rstats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rstats</span></a> is there R support for the `brand.yml`? The GH repo has been untouched for 4 months saying "coming soon"</p>
DSLC Videos<p>Recent <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@DSLC" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>DSLC</span></a></span> club meetings:</p><p>:rstats:python: Devops for Data Science: Introduction <a href="https://youtu.be/Ya0EHNfg4WA" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/Ya0EHNfg4WA</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>From the <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@DSLC" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>DSLC</span></a></span> :rstats:​chives:</p><p>:rstats: ISLR: Survival Analysis and Censored Data <a href="https://youtu.be/rQ9p9qawq1E" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/rQ9p9qawq1E</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/RStats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RStats</span></a></p><p>:rstats: Advanced R: Conditions <a href="https://youtu.be/ZFUr7YRSu2o" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/ZFUr7YRSu2o</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/RStats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RStats</span></a></p><p>:rstats: Advanced R: Vectors <a href="https://youtu.be/QcdByYHo1ms" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/QcdByYHo1ms</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/RStats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RStats</span></a></p><p>Visit <a href="https://dslc.video" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">dslc.video</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> for hours of new <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/DataScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataScience</span></a> videos every week!</p>
emilyriederer<p>Dev and deploy require of diff skills. <br>dbt tries to bridge the gap for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>data</span></a> pipelines, but what about MLOps?</p><p>I explored how Posit's {orbital} + dbt delivers "good enough" zero-infra MLOps for batch model scoring in database from python or <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/rstats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rstats</span></a> models</p><p><a href="https://www.emilyriederer.com/post/orbital-mlops/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">emilyriederer.com/post/orbital</span><span class="invisible">-mlops/</span></a></p>
Rami Krispin :unverified:<p>My weekly newsletter is out! </p><p>This week:<br>🔹Open Source of the Week - The NNS project<br>🔹New learning resources - AI agents with n8n, fine-tuning LLMs with LoRA, lists, tuples, and sets in Python<br>🔹Book of the week - The Machine Learning Q and AI by Sebastian Raschka</p><p>📌 Join 30k subscribers and subscribe for weekly updates.</p><p><a href="https://ramikrispin.substack.com/p/the-nns-project-ai-agents-with-n8n" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ramikrispin.substack.com/p/the</span><span class="invisible">-nns-project-ai-agents-with-n8n</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/RStats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RStats</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Python</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/MachineLearning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MachineLearning</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a></p>
Data Science<p>Using fonts in R graphics can be tricky at times. {showtext} aims to make it easier: <a href="https://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/showtext/vignettes/introduction.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/</span><span class="invisible">showtext/vignettes/introduction.html</span></a> <a href="https://genomic.social/tags/rstats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rstats</span></a> <a href="https://genomic.social/tags/dataviz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dataviz</span></a> <a href="https://genomic.social/tags/ggplot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ggplot</span></a></p>
Henrik Bengtsson<p>Help needed 🙏 If you're a HPC <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RStats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RStats</span></a> user on SGE/Slurm/Torque/PBS/LSF/OpenLava, could you pls try {future.batchtools} devel version per <a href="https://future.batchtools.futureverse.org/index.html#pre-release-version" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">future.batchtools.futureverse.</span><span class="invisible">org/index.html#pre-release-version</span></a>?</p><p>library(future.batchtools)<br>plan(batchtools_slurm)<br>f &lt;- future(Sys.info())<br>value(f)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/parallel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>parallel</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/hpc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hpc</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/future" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>future</span></a></p>
Li Shandross<p>Hi, I'm Li 👋 Nice to meet you!</p><p>I'm a data scientist who develops models and various open-source tools for infectious disease forecasting</p><p>Will mostly write/boost things about <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RStats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RStats</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/forecasting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>forecasting</span></a> and the like, plus interesting <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/wildlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wildlife</span></a> photos or anecdotes</p>
Stephen Turner<p>Closing my browser tabs: papers, blogs, news stories, YouTube videos, tutorials, etc. from the world of data science + biotech this week <a href="https://doi.org/10.59350/stephenturner.170864866" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">doi.org/10.59350/ste...</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Rstats" target="_blank">#Rstats</a></p>